(In 2020, the pandemic prevented festivities from proceeding as usual.)

“I had the most gorgeous dress on.

It was just a very, very beautiful dress.

Helen Mirren wear a white shirt and skirt with a black belt on the Cannes red carpet

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I thought it would be great to have my hair match the dress which it did.

It was very good.

It was one of my favorites.”

Helen Mirren wears pink hair at Cannes

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It wasn’t herall-timefavorite red-carpet look, though.

That goes back 15 years to the 2006 Venice Film Festival.

I loved that look."

Helen Mirren wear a sequined dress at the Venice film festival red carpet in 2006

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Weirdly, comfort is very, very important."

“Kate is a very beautiful woman, undoubtedly, of course.

She’s a really great woman.”

Helen Mirren and Kate Winslet on the Oscar red carpet in 2007

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As they say, it takes one to know one.

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